Polish orphans and, 187–88
press and publicity on, 75–76, 89–90, 97, 99, 102–3, 108–9, 122, 139–40, 153, 161, 163, 170
promotions of, 95, 99
reading by, 20, 188
return parade and, 159
return to U.S., 138–41
at Ross Ice Barrier, 126–30
at sea, 91–102, 116–20, 144–45
senior prom of, 38–39
senior yearbook of, 44–45
speaking engagements of, 168
stowaway attempts by, 59–63, 65–67, 76, 78–83, 174, 195
as swimmer, 7, 13, 130–31
in Tahiti, 104
as teenager, 16–18, 23
trip back to Antarctica, 144–45
visit to City of New York, 2–3
at White House, 163
in World War II, 189–91, 193
Gawronski, Francesca Zajac, 2, 9–12, 14, 15, 17–20, 23, 25, 31–32, 36, 38, 46–49, 58, 60, 74, 76, 82, 86, 90, 99, 109, 111, 122–24, 129, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149, 153, 156, 161, 164, 175, 177–79, 186, 193
Gawronski, George, 201
Gawronski, Gizela Trawicka, 195–97, 200, 201
Gawronski, Goldy Mundy, 185, 186, 188, 190, 195, 196
Gawronski, Rudy, 6, 9–15, 17–21, 23, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 43–47, 49, 74, 76, 81–82, 86–88, 90, 97, 99, 109, 111, 122–24, 129, 139, 140–45, 147, 149, 153, 156, 161, 166, 177–78, 185–86, 193
Gawronski, Stefanie, 10, 11, 141
Gawronski, Walter, 15
Gawronski, William Gregory (Billy Jr.), 190, 191, 201
Gerlache, Adrien de, 28, 34
Gibbs, George, 187
Gillespie, Colin, 152
Golden State (freighter), 112, 131
Gould, Charles “Chips,” 132
Gould, Laurence, 80, 101, 102, 110, 117, 121, 126–27, 132, 133, 145, 150
Gowanus, Brooklyn, 50, 76–77, 85
Graf Zeppelin (airship), 71
Graham Land, 107
Greason, Sydney, 136, 141
Great Depression, 179, 181, 185, 196
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 185
Green, “Fitz,” 30
Greenland, 29
Grenager, Carl, 81
Griffith, D. W., 22
Haines, William, 80, 84, 145, 146, 182
Haiti, 92
Hall, Mordaunt “Freddy,” 164
Hampton Roads Naval Base, 81
Hanan, H. W., 77
Hanson, Malcolm, 58, 102, 118, 125
Harlow, Winnifred Webster, 42
Harris, Marion, 65
Harrison, Henry, 131, 137
Hearst, William Randolph, 107
Henson, Matthew, 10, 72, 73
Hillenbrand, Laura, 183
Hindenburg (airship), 71
Hitler, Adolf, 183, 189
HMS Kilmarnock, 77
Hoboken, New Jersey, 2, 53, 62, 63, 67, 70, 71
Home of the Blizzard, The (Mawson), 112
Hoover, Herbert, 38, 53, 139, 148, 163, 178
Hudson River, 1, 4, 59, 62, 174, 195
icebergs, 117
Igloo (dog), 155, 158
Immigration Act of 1924, 155
Indianapolis Recorder, 132
international date line, 108
Into the Frozen South (Marr), 39
Inuits, 10, 29–30, 58
Italia (airship), 40
Jack (dog), 96
Jacob Ruppert (cargo ship), 182
Jacobson, John, 3, 140–41
Jefferson, Thomas, 90
Jones, Bobby, 18
Jose Bonifacio, 191, 193
Josephine Ford (Fokker trimotor aircraft), 26–27
June, Harold, 98, 146, 182
Junkers monoplane, 64
Kane, Helen, 65
Kaufman studios, 22
Keaton, Buster, 22
Keats, John, 188
Kessler, Charles “Kess,” 95, 100, 104, 131, 150, 176
King, Harry, 1
King Tut (dog), 53
Klondike gold rush, 51, 109
Komodo Island, 21
Konter, Richard “Ukulele Dick,” 52, 101
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz, 89–90
Lanier, Robert “Bob,” 61–63, 65, 71–73, 76, 96–97, 112–13, 131–32, 142, 187
Layman, David T., 128
Leviathan (liner), 3–4, 64, 174, 175, 178
Liberty ships, 189
Lindbergh, Charles, 25–27, 31, 37, 52, 158, 159
Lindy Hop, 52
Little America base camp, 124–26, 128–29, 134, 135, 140, 142, 153, 181
Lloyd, Gladys, 45
Lofgren, Charley, 43, 68, 116–17
London, Jack, 20, 52, 126
London Evening Telegraph, 89
London Times, 165
Los Angeles (dirigible), 157
Lovelace, Delos W., 43
Lowell, Massachusetts, 24
Lucky Strike cigarettes, 61
Luna Park, 153
MacDonald, W. A., 65, 72
Mack, Andrew, 48
Macom (tug), 64, 67, 69, 157, 158
Mammy songs, 52
Manhattan (steamer), 157, 183
Manning, Harry, 184
Maoris, 52, 106
Marie Byrd Land, 133
Marr, James, 39
Marsh, R. Oglesby, 21
Mary (cat), 80
Mason, Howard, 102, 151
Mawson, Sir Douglas, 112
McKinley, Ashley “Ash,” 80, 84, 122, 146, 147, 167, 168
McPherson, Frank “Mac,” 96
Medal of Valor, 159
Meinholtz, Frederick, 141
Melville, Frederick, 2, 65, 67, 78, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103, 117, 118, 124, 134, 150, 177
Melville, Herman, 2, 20, 22, 65
Merchant Marines, 182–85, 187, 189–91, 193–94
Mira Por Vos, 92
Miss Silvertown (aircraft), 152
Moore, A. Harry, 97
Moose-Moss-Mouse (dog), 154
Morgan, J. P., 77
Morse code, 58, 81, 103
Mosher, John Chapin, 165
Mount Erebus, 114–15, 150, 171
Mount Fridtjof Nansen, 145
Mulroy, Thomas “Mac,” 2, 69
Mundy, Goldy, see Gawronski, Goldy Mundy
Murmansk, 189–90
Murphy, Charles, 160, 182
Murphy, John, 132
National Archives, 137
National Association of the Fur Industry, 57
National Economic League, 180
National Geographic Society, 55, 164
National Guard, 159
New York Age, 97
New York Daily News, 16, 68, 89
New York Daily Sun, 16, 90, 160, 162
New York Evening Graphic, 42
New York Evening World, 73
New York Herald Tribune, 89, 155
New York Sun, 90, 160, 162
New York Times, 30–33, 51, 54, 55, 64, 68, 71, 76, 82, 89, 91, 93, 94, 97, 99, 100, 105, 107, 115, 122, 125, 127, 140, 141, 147, 160, 162–64
New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, 75
New York Women’s League for Animals, 16
New York World, 30
New Yorker magazine, 57, 81, 165
New Zealand Truth, 132
Niagara (liner), 142
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 128
Nilsen, Mrs. Oscar, 101
Nilsen, Oscar, 98, 101
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 17
Norfolk, Virginia, 53, 80, 81, 86
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 85
North Pole, 4, 10, 18, 29, 40, 72, 73, 146, 147, 164
Byrd’s flight (1926), 18, 26–27, 31, 34, 36, 51, 58, 77, 147
Nukaping, 29, 30, 58
Ny-Ålesund, 31
O’Brien, John S. “Jack,” 80, 136
O’Hara, Neal, 73
Ohio State University, 122
Olympic Games, 183
Operation Highjump, 192
Order of Nep
tune, 99–101
Orteig, Raymond, 25
Orteig Prize, 25, 27, 158
Otago gold rush, 106
Owen, Russell, 30–32, 35, 55, 64, 65, 71, 82, 101, 115–17, 124, 131, 133, 137, 139, 146, 147, 162
Owens, Jesse, 183
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 14, 15, 188
Panama, 92, 93, 105
Panama Canal, 21, 54, 65, 76, 93, 96, 99, 104
Papeete, Tahiti, 103–4
Paramount Pictures, 22, 55, 166
Parker, Alton, 98, 125
Patricia (steamship), 12
Pearl Harbor, 185, 189
Peary, Robert, 10, 72, 164
Pender, Ann, 42
penguins, 118–20, 130, 150, 154, 170
Petersen, Carl, 129
Philippine-American War, 83
Piłsudski, Józef, 15, 41, 87
Pittsburgh Courier, 73
Poland magazine, 89, 123
Polish Falcons, 13, 44, 59, 68, 131, 141
Polish National Home, 12, 140
Pomare, Sir Maui, 106
Popular Mechanics magazine, 5, 33
Popular Science magazine, 30
Port Chalmers, 108, 114
Portland, Maine, 197
President Roosevelt (liner), 18
Prohibition, 54, 104, 108, 162
Ptolemy, 147
Pugh, Nancy, 42–43
Putnam, George “Gyp,” 37, 39, 55, 72, 80
Queen Maud Mountains, 145
Quest expedition (1921), 39
radiotelegraphy, 102
Railey, Hilton, 89, 102, 112, 116, 134, 149
Read, Gabriel, 106
Red Cross, 12, 17
Rex (dog), 96
Richmond Light Infantry Blues, 158–60
Richmond Sixteenth Infantry Battalion Band, 159
Riverside (steamer), 157
Rockefeller, John D. Jr., 55, 132
Roddy, William M., 169
Ronne, Martin, 51, 98
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 139, 153, 178–80, 186, 187
Ross, Sir James Clark, 53
Ross Ice Barrier (Ross Ice Shelf), 34, 54, 84, 113, 114, 117, 125–31, 197, 201
Ross Sea, 53, 114, 121, 123, 129, 130, 134, 151, 170, 179
Roth, Benjamin “Bennie,” 51, 101, 125, 126, 130–31, 137, 154
Rucker, Joseph T., 152, 165, 166
Rudy (cat), 80
Rybicki, Edward C., 141, 178
Saint Elmo’s fire, 116
St. Louis, 184
St. Stanislaus Parish, Manhattan, 11, 14, 155
Samson (seal hunter), 35, 49, 66
San Pedro, California, 87, 98
Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 67, 155
Santayana, George, 128
Scientific American magazine, 5, 128
Scopes, John T., 30
Scopes trial, 30
Scotland Lightship Quarantine Station, 155
Scott, Robert Falcon, 4, 35, 41, 46, 51, 53, 55–56, 106, 112, 115, 119, 181
Scout (tug), 70
seals, 30, 35, 118, 125, 130
Seamen’s Church Institute, Manhattan, 82, 160–61, 167, 176, 177, 196
sextant, 147
Shackleton, Ernest, 4, 28, 35, 39, 40, 53, 63, 106, 115, 171, 181
Shelley, Percy, 188
Sherwood, George H., 174
Shoenhair, Leland “Lee,” 152
shortwave radio, 53, 58
Siberian Gulags, 187
Siple, Carolyn, 62
Siple, Paul, 50–51, 62, 68, 72, 89, 103–5, 113, 120–22, 133, 150, 154, 168, 182, 187
Sir James Clark Ross (whaler), 52, 53, 96, 109, 112, 115, 189
Sjogren, George, 100
Ski and Ski (dog), 136
Skookun Siwash (dog), 109
Sloan, Alfred P., 77
Smith, Al, 37–38
Smith, Dean C., 98, 111
Smith, Elinor, 41
Smithsonian Institution, 21
Soldiers and Sailors Club, Manhattan, 176
Solowitz, Jack, 61, 63, 65–67, 69–71
South Georgia Island, 39, 119
South Pole, 4, 5, 28, 34–35, 37, 51, 54, 107, 121, 128, 133, 145–48, 171, 180. see also Byrd Antarctica expedition
Spanish-American War, 107
Spirit of St. Louis (monoplane), 26, 27
Spitsbergen, Norway, 34, 129
Stalin, Joseph, 189
Stars and Stripes (aircraft), 125
Statue of Liberty, 65–67
Stella Polaris, 170
Stenhouse, Joseph Russell, 170–71
stock market, 143, 144
Stonington Island, 187
Stroebel, John, 19
Strom, Sverre, 66–67, 71, 137
submarine warfare, 189, 190
Suez Canal, 66
Sullivan, John L., 21–22
Sunshine (stowaway), 79, 80, 98
Svalbard archipelago, 31, 34
Swanson, Gloria, 22
Tadde, Attilio, 45
Tahiti, 54, 98, 99, 103–4, 152
Tahiti (mail liner), 138
Tamaroa (steamer), 152
Tanganyika (Tanzania), 187
Tebo Yacht Basin, Gowanus, 76–77, 85
temperatures, 55, 105, 115, 125, 126, 129, 137
Tennant, George, 82, 83, 86, 94, 100, 101, 132–33, 136, 141
Terra Australis Incognita (Unknown Southern Land), 147
Terra Nova (Scott’s ship), 112
Textile High School, Manhattan, 6, 24–25, 32, 38–40, 44, 88, 140, 163, 164
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 6
Thorne, George “Mike,” 82
Thorne, George Sr., 82, 96
Time magazine, 75, 165
Times Wide World Studios, 152
Titanic (liner), 2, 117
Todd, William, 35, 76, 77
Tootsie (dog), 15–16, 96
Trawicka, Gizela, see Gawronski, Gizela Trawicka
Tromsø, Norway, 35
True to the Navy (movie), 166
U-boats, 189, 190
Ulua (liner), 97
Unbroken (Hillenbrand), 183
unemployment, 167
Uniondale, Long Island, 48
United Fruit Company, 96, 105
Uniwaleco (tanker), 189
Urville, Adéle d’, 119
Urville, Jules Dumont d’, 119
Van Cleef, William, 90
Van der Veer, Willard, 152, 165, 166
Van Gogh, Vincent, 25
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 76
Vanneck, John, 76
Veendam (liner), 2
Verne, Jules, 128
Victoria Land, 123
Vietnam War, 194
Virginia Cape, 81
Virginian-Pilot, 85–87, 89
Vitagraph Studios, 22
Vojtech, Vaclav, 111
Voliva, Wilbur Glenn, 147–48
Voss Island, 92
Walden, Arthur, 51–52, 109, 189
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 39
Walker, James “Jimmy,” 26, 149, 152, 158–60
Warner Brothers, 22
Washington, George, 41
We (Lindbergh), 37
Weddell, James, 118
Welles, Orson, 107
Wellington, New Zealand, 105–6, 108, 111, 112
Wemple, S. Nevin, 42
Whalen, Grover, 156, 159, 168–70
whales, 112, 118, 124, 168–70
White, E. B., 57
White House, Washington, 163
“Why I Am Going to the South Pole” (Byrd), 28
Wilbur, Curtis D., 64–65
Wilkes, Charles, 4, 164
Wilkins, Hubert, 106–7, 121–22, 125
Wilkins-Hearst Expedition, 107
Williams, Harrison, 76–77
Wilson, Woodrow, 37
Winchester Star, 83
Winnie Winkle (cat), 80
With Byrd at the South Pole (documentary), 142, 146, 152, 164–67, 173
Womack, Lyle, 95
WOR Radio, 139–40
Wordsworth, William, 188
World War I, 41, 106, 136, 153
World War II, 185
World’s Work magazine, 28
Worst Journey in the World, The: With Scott in Antarctica, 1910–1913 (Cherry-Garrard), 119
Wrigley, William J., 56, 169
Yarmouth, 185
Zamperini, Louis, 183
PHOTO CREDITS
1. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
2. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
3. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
4. The New York Times
5. Waterman/Newell Brands
6. Seamen’s Church Institute/The New York Times
7. Associated Press
8. Associated Press
9. The New York Times
10. The New York Times
11. The New York Times
12. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
13. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
14. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
15. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
16. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
17. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
18. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
19. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
20. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
21. National Archives and Records Administration
22. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
23. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
24. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
25. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
26. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
27. The New York Times
28. Ohio State University Archives/Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
29. Associated Press
30. From the New York Public Library
31. Sony/ATV
32. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
33. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
34. Gizela Gawronski
35. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
36. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
37. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
38. Gizela Gawronski & Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
www.SimonandSchuster.com
Copyright © 2018 by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
The Stowaway Page 23
